Stateful Failover Questions - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual
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Frequently Asked Failover Questions
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Stateful Failover Questions
See the following questions and answers for stateful failover:
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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and Cisco 7600 Series Router Firewall Services Module Configuration Guide
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In an inter-switch failover scenario, the trunk between the switches fails
What prevents the standby module from passing traffic?
The FWSM failover feature ensures that only traffic aimed to the standby module (hello messages,
Telnet if enabled) is successful, while traffic aimed through the module is dropped.
What information is not replicated to the standby FWSM on stateful failover?
The user authentication (uauth) table.
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The ISAKMP and IPSec SA table (for management access only).
The ARP table.
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Routing information.
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Other UDP connections.
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Can I share the state link interface with the failover link?
Yes, however, we recommend that you use a separate interface.
Chapter 15
Using Failover
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